First Art Gallery Visit in NYC

       I truly enjoyed class on Thursday, I am very much into art and I was unaware of all the galleries that surround me in this city! The first gallery I went to was the DC MOORE Gallery, and it was really big and spacey. I am not used to the big space, my cousin in Chicago and her husband have their own gallery in their apartment and it's pretty limited on space compared to the galleries I saw. It just makes me think of all the pieces they could show if they had more space. In the first gallery was probably one of my favorite exhibits, the 9/11 Through Young Eyes. This exhibit in particular I felt close to being that the 10th anniversary of 9/11 was only six days ago, and it makes me more proud to be in new york. The exhibit was very sad with the fact that such young kids made each picture and probably were just babies when the attack happened. Each picture had a caption and told a story, it was 31 pictures long. The captions were really touching and made me think of things I never though of about 9/11. For example the missing signs for people everywhere in the city after the attacks, and the American flags everywhere.        

                                          

    The last picture in the exhibit was number 31 which was "And people still miss the Twin Towers," Its so powerful and knowing that young children made these is truly inspiring.
    
     At the PPOW Gallery I saw the most interesting exhibit I have ever seen. The main artist that was displayed was Martha Wilson. I really loved the message that she was sending. She had a video playing in the gallery of herself and she was showcasing her flaws. She was really all about the aging process, and said " I have become my own worst fear," which I believed to be an older woman. This gallery definitely makes me not want to age ever! But it is really sad to me that I felt she didn't see any beauty in herself. It also makes me think about being a woman after you are unable to reproduce anymore and how  it almost seems women either let themselves go or try to feel younger, almost like after you can't have children there is no purpose?

      Another gallery I really enjoyed had some Andy Warhol paintings and sculptures. The sculptures were abstract of violins. I have played the violin for almost 12 years so it was really nice to see sculptures of them because it seems that a lot of the art work I saw before were not 100% sure of what they were and were more for interpretation.

     After seeing all of the galleries we headed to the Meatpacking District to check out some of the shops! We went into DVF, Scoop, Jeffery, and my favorite All Saints. I had heard of DVF before obviously but all the other stores were new to me. All of the stores were in a very high price range but All Saints was probably most my style and the store setup was something  I had never seen before. The whole front of the store had all old singer sewing machines as the wall, and the store felt very industrial as well as the decor was very innovative. I sew as a hobby so seeing all the old fashion sewing machines was something I thought really brought character to the store and it was so clever! 

     Visiting all the galleries, and stores in the Meatpacking District was very enjoyable and exposed me to what New York really has to offer. I would probably have never found the galleries if we did not go there and now I am interested in visiting more!